Editorial

The Writing Agent

It’s 2090, and intelligent technologies have advanced to a point where the practice of reading has become obsolete. Veronika Valtonen's speculative fiction reframes the current typographic condition against the backdrop of a rapidly developing technological landscape.

Echoes of Influence: A Personal Essay on Romanian Visual Heritage

Ana Elena Chiță's essay examines the evolution of Romania’s national visual identity exploring a scattered archive of historic periodicals to understand how everyday imagery, typography, and design choices constructed ideology and aspiration.

Fluxipelagos: A View Of Design From A Ring Of Fire Nation

Andriew Budiman repositions Southeast Asia as the world's central "Fluxipelago" rather than a peripheral receiver of global discourse. A place where design is not a colonial import but an ancestral skill – a way of orienting within chaos, mediating contradictions, and sustaining interdependence.

Common Ground: How can designers work from within social movement ecologies?

Gemma Copeland explores how designers can work from within social movements – not as external service providers, but as embedded, relational parts of the wider whole. Drawing on Gemma's experience as a designer and member of Common Knowledge, she reflects on the methodologies they've developed to build power in social movements.

27 bones – on choreographies of labour in graphic design – after Karen Brodine

Sara Kaaman's graphic designer body has been folded around a laptop, performing the same repetitive gestures in micro-movements of fingers and eyes – scrolling, clicking, dragging, sliding. This essay places the graphic designer body at center stage and asks it to tell its story – to speak of its aches, pains, rhythms, and dreams.